The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-08
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The Evening News asserts, If we
have correctly kept track Of its figures,
that the sum OF about S75 900 is being
sent from this city annually for liquor.
We will suppose that tWo-thirds Of the
beverage thus brought here is beer and
that the average price is $500 per keg.
This would make about II, 900 kegs Of
beer per annum shipped into the city
and $25, 900 worth of other liquors.
the fourth of this quantity of the
hilarious beverage, it shows the neceS-
sity for still more stringent legislation
upon the liquor question, and the
News, in parading its statements to
break down prohibition, will find them
to be boomerangs that will fY back to
more effectually destroy the object
sought to be accomplished by such
magnihed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
''Does anybody believe it?" Yes,
indeed, and the editor of the Republic
can is one of the believers, or he would
be enabled to make stronger and
better argument in favor of Kansas
City and her liquor trade with US
which he practically indorses by trying
to show its insigni6cance and harm.
lessness, and at the same time attempt
ing to throw dirt into the eyes of the
people by accusing THE NEWS of being
an anti-prohibition paper.
But to answer the above clipping
Admitting that all the beer that comes
to this city is in kegs-and not one
tenth is-and that 1900 came an
nually, it would make the total arrival
Of only four kegs and a fraction fol
each day. Now, if the editor of the
Republican, or any other business mar
in this city who is daily on the streets,
can conscientiously say he thinks this
viii cover the amount arriving, we will
guarantee that good medical authority
will decide that something is the mat
ter with his thinker.
But this is not a fair statement, as
much the larger portion of the beel
shipped into this city comes, not in
kegs-as the Republican is used to it
but in bottles in cases. And a person
need not be drinker to find this out
ArriYalslon the railroads, by both
freight and express, viii show this to
those at all curious. This being the
fact, we are inclined to believe ouI
figures were too low, and that carefully
compiled statistics on the subject
would develop the fact that S75, OOC
would not nearly pay for the intoxi.
cants shipped into Emporia, every dol
lar of which is a clear drain on our re-
sources.
If big figures are likely to convince
its readers, we would advise the Re-
publican to make its calculations next
time for ten or twenty years, so the
amounts will horrify even itself. For
instance, calculate how much beer q
man about fifty-five years of age would
have been liable to have consumed had
he always lived in Kansas and always
been the same kind of prohibitionist
the calculations and deductions ar.
rived at in the above extract would in
dictate the author to be. Possibly the
results would lead to a verdict similar
to that of Mrs. Magown, who knew heI
boys never drank when visiting the
city in the evening. as they were al.
ways so thirsty in the morning that
they nearly drank the well dry.
Since writing the above, we have
been informed by one of our best posted
citizens that during the hot weather OF
last summer, at certain times, the ar.
rivals of beer alone in this city otter
averaged over 100 kegs a day. This
same gentleman informs us that one Of
the express companies had an extra
hand hired during the entire heated
term in each of the offices of any size
throughout the state, whose services
were necessitated by the above large
shipments.